Course  

MATH 225N Statistical Reasoning For The Health Sciences

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
OpenStax Book: Chapter 2.. Section 2.1

Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source
In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your outside reading(s).

Initial Post Instructions
Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month’s time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. You can make assumptions about other information or variables that are included in each data set.

For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information. To organize your data would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency table, or a relative frequency table? Why?

What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph?

SOLUTION  

In this situation, I think a frequency table would be most helpful, with the list of injuries along the y axis. Every injury on the list would be assigned one of three categories: critical, serious, or noncritical, depending on how serious it was. The elapsed waiting time for each individual patient will be shown along the x-axis. The data will be more manageable and easier to interpret with the aid of this frequency table, which displays a range of scores in either descending or ascending order (Krishnamurthy & Hari, 2018). The frequencies will also play a role, displaying the frequency with which each number occurs when looking at the individual data sets. It won’t be hard to piece together the big picture of what all of these numbers mean.…….please click the icon below to purchase the solution at $10